2014-107 Arts - Preservation Chapel Hill - Fall 2013 Arts Grant Agreement

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PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL GRANT REQUEST NARRATIVE TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED $1500 Preservation Chapel Hill (formerly the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill) has been operating at the Horace Williams House since 1973. Over the past forty years it has been an important cultural center the Society's founders, Ida Friday and Georgia Kyser, envisioning a place where art and history would mesh together to educate and serve the Chapel Hill community. Of late, the Society has become more deeply involved with fulfilling its core mission which is to preserve the architectural heritage and historic landscapes of Chapel Hill and its environs. Consequently, its staff has been left with less administrative time to attend to its forty year long art program which, to date, has shown the work of hundreds of diverse local artists. Preservation Chapel Hill currently stages nine exhibitions a year of juried artists work representing a variety of media. The Art Committee —a group of nine artists- curates all the exhibitions The administrative burden of running this nine exhibition program currently falls heavily on the shoulders of the Art Committee's Co Chairs who are both required to be working artists. We are seeking Orange County Arts Commission funding for administrative support for the Art Program. Specifically, we are asking for funding to pay Art Committee member Tama Hochbaum, a photographer, to be the Art Program's chief administrator. Ms Hochbaum was very effective in preparing the catalog for the 40th Art Retrospective and has extensive graphic skills.If funding is forthcoming she will be required to prepare press releases, exhibition signage for the program's nine exhibitions, materials for the program's annual call for work (which includes publicity, marketing the program and preparing materials for the Art Committee's work review), preparing materials for the artist's contracts and producing orientation materials for artists accepted to show at the Horace Williams House in 2015. Preservation Chapel Hill already funds an exhibition installer and in doing so provides the match for this grant application. We ask that the Orange County Arts Commission fully fund our grant application. In November 2012, Preservation Chapel Hill staged a 4011' Anniversary retrospective exhibition. Those artists chosen to exhibit represented a myriad of disciplines. Many past exhibitors thanked the Society for having given them recognition in their formative artistic years.